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BROOKLYN, Sept. 26--Robin Roberts threw a dark blanket over Brooklyn's pennant hopes today by pitching the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-3 victory that dumped the desperate Dodgers a full game behind the league leading Milwaukee Braves...
...forecast 120 million people-the biggest mass audience in history (twice the number that saw the 1952 convention, twelve times the 1948 show). ¶ New coaxial cables have been laid. Nearly 73,000 miles of TV channels will link 400 stations in 270 U.S. cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes...
...question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...
Quiet, lanky Henry Heald, a hardheaded defender of academic freedom, has consistently refused to join the furious academic fusillade aimed at congressional investigators; he declared in 1953 that "it is just as inappropriate to issue blanket condemnation of investigating committees as it is for the members of such committees to make irresponsible charges against individuals or institutions." Heald disagrees basically with the stand taken by such educators as the Fund for the Republic's Robert Hutchins, who once declared that he would not necessarily fire a Communist professor unless he were incompetent and indoctrinating his classes...
...Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted the log, she gave a low cry. Though chilled by the night air, the body was warm. Jean gave another weak cry and mumbled that she was cold. Hyatt wrapped her in a blanket, rushed her to the hospital. Despite her bruises, emaciation, shock and exposure, doctors said she would live...